Schmidt Group is the industrial leader in custom-made furniture manufacturing with a Lean culture of over 30 years. After deploying AI in production to improve OEE, Schmidt is now scaling up across the group by integrating energy performance topics. The use of AI for real-time bottleneck identification has allowed them to improve the OEE of the line by 4 points. he object-oriented approach of the PI system enabled simple deployment, and opened doors to other opportunities within the company. Schmidt is now integrating energy performance topics to reduce our impact on the planet, with the ambition to add intelligence modules similar to the one already in place.